The Samsung Galaxy S2 is Brilliant! It looks the Galaxy S3 is looking great also!
Google Chrome to Phone (by googlechrome) Great app for any user!
“Spacial Awareness Devices”
What are they? what can you do etc etc… take a quick look at this short video and see the basics and then imagine where it will go. I love the age we live in.
This Flour Pot Bakery branding by Sara Nicely is really outstanding. It’s fun, it’s inviting, and it’s simple.
This is a great example for how you don’t always need colorful illustrations or complicated typefaces to make a product stick out. This packaging is not only understated, but also incredibly fun.
EnergyWatch.com.au →
Does the new CEO know what he is doing?
Luke Zombor has just replaced Ben Polis as CEO of EnergyWatch.com.au. A company which also founded FreedomSEO.com.au. The question I have is “Is Luke Zombor able to run a company of that size?” He is listed a ‘Co-founder’ and given the constant rants of Ben Polis I can only assume he knew the crap that Ben was going on about… so is there any reason we should think that the company under the business partner will be any different?
Thanks Bunnings! Its great to see them employing more Australians… Now where did my other local hardware stores go?
Social media is starting to see it’s potential
KONY 2012 took the social web by storm last week, as a 30-minute documentary seeking to arrest LRA leader Joseph Kony was viewed online nearly…
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Three to six months of blogging about and posting videos on this home owners house has paid off. Video featuring the great @sammutimer
McDonald’s discovers social media can backfire when people hate you | Grist
When McDonald’s tried to launch the #McDStories Twitter campaign, they clearly envisioned a bunch of fond memories from Big Mac lovers, interspersed with behind-the-scenes glimpses into the McDonald’s “food”-making process. (They kicked it off with a link to “some of the hard-working people dedicated to providing McDs with quality food every day.”) Unfortunately, they really, really misunderstood social media. Result: #McDStories was quickly overrun with the grossest, weirdest McDonald’s non-appreciation its non-fans could come up with.
An excellent point for us all… is your brand loved by everyone? Given that McD’s is so well known and and so many people eat there so often their marketing people must have thought they had it in the bag…
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Why 3-D Printing Will Go the Way of Virtual Reality - Technology Review
This isn’t just premature, it’s absurd. 3-D printing, like VR before it, is one of those technologies that suggest a trend of long and steep adoption driven by rapid advances on the systems we have now. And granted, some of what’s going on at present is pretty cool—whether it’s in rapid prototyping, solid-fuel rockets, bio-assembly or just giant plastic showpieces.
But the notion that 3-D printing will on any reasonable time scale become a “mature” technology that can reproduce all the goods on which we rely is to engage in a complete denial of the complexities of modern manufacturing, and, more to the point, the challenges of working with matter.
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Hype is inevitably followed by some level of backlash, or at least disinterest, and it would be a shame for 3-D printing to head into a too-deep trough of the Gartner hype cycle. There will be plenty of interesting applications for 3-D printing, but I’ll bet the ones that will have the biggest impact will be within traditional factories, where rapid prototyping is already having a huge impact.
I believe this is right. That is why it is interesting to try to look where 3D print might have a unique advantage. Following Bruce Sterlings early insights about this I think one of these possible areas are places on the planet where they don’t have access to factories yet, but is in need of things – many cheap, small but specialized things like e g spare parts for important machines.
Update: Ian Pearson commented on Twitter on this post by noting that 3D print will create a great digital craft industry, which I agree with. And that is a whole interesting area in itself since a whole new craft area will most likely redefine how we relate to design and production. Maybe not for everything but for the things that are perceived to be special and we really like and have emotional relations.
3D printing and Virtual reality… both areas that amaze and will no doubt be that in the future but at this stage both very early on and no one is entirely sure how and where we are going with it. 3D printing is an amazing idea for construction models but making other products that require different grades of materials with different properties is not something that can be factored in at this point in time…
Looking forward to where 3D printing is 5 years from now though…](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyehuab1jg1qz4fj0o1_500.jpg)
Why 3-D Printing Will Go the Way of Virtual Reality - Technology Review
This isn’t just premature, it’s absurd. 3-D printing, like VR before it, is one of those technologies that suggest a trend of long and steep adoption driven by rapid advances on the systems we have now. And granted, some of what’s going on at present is pretty cool—whether it’s in rapid prototyping, solid-fuel rockets, bio-assembly or just giant plastic showpieces.But the notion that 3-D printing will on any reasonable time scale become a “mature” technology that can reproduce all the goods on which we rely is to engage in a complete denial of the complexities of modern manufacturing, and, more to the point, the challenges of working with matter.[…]
Hype is inevitably followed by some level of backlash, or at least disinterest, and it would be a shame for 3-D printing to head into a too-deep trough of the Gartner hype cycle. There will be plenty of interesting applications for 3-D printing, but I’ll bet the ones that will have the biggest impact will be within traditional factories, where rapid prototyping is already having a huge impact.I believe this is right. That is why it is interesting to try to look where 3D print might have a unique advantage. Following Bruce Sterlings early insights about this I think one of these possible areas are places on the planet where they don’t have access to factories yet, but is in need of things – many cheap, small but specialized things like e g spare parts for important machines.
Update: Ian Pearson commented on Twitter on this post by noting that 3D print will create a great digital craft industry, which I agree with. And that is a whole interesting area in itself since a whole new craft area will most likely redefine how we relate to design and production. Maybe not for everything but for the things that are perceived to be special and we really like and have emotional relations.
3D printing and Virtual reality… both areas that amaze and will no doubt be that in the future but at this stage both very early on and no one is entirely sure how and where we are going with it. 3D printing is an amazing idea for construction models but making other products that require different grades of materials with different properties is not something that can be factored in at this point in time…
Looking forward to where 3D printing is 5 years from now though…
